
National Level Science Talent Search Examination
What is NSTSE ?
NSTSE is a diagnostic
test which actually helps students improve.
Unlike regular tests which try only to find out how much a child knows
(or has memorized), NSTSE measures how well a student has understood
concepts and gives detailed feedback on the same, to help them improve.
Thus NSTSE helps each student know whether he/she has actually understood
a concept early on so that immediate action can be taken. Often students
have conceptual gaps which increase as they progress and when they reach the
higher classes, they develop a "phobia" for the subject.
School tests - including board exams - tend to be superficial, testing
what children have memorised. But the important skills like the ability to
think independently and reason logically - critical in today's world - are
often not emphasised in school tests.
The focus on fundamentals is so important that when the child finishes
studies he/she will have to face the competitive world armed with these
fundamentals. Even while opting for higher studies, the student has to go
through a complete scan of what he/she knows and how much. Exams like
IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AFMC, AIIMS, GRE, GMAT, CAT etc., are so designed to test
the fundamental strength of student. Hence the need of the hour is building
the fundamentals base as strong as possible.
This exactly is the philosophy behind the Unified Council's NSTSE.
NSTSE is unlike other tests in many different ways. It
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has interesting questions that require thinking, not simply recall.
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provides detailed skill-wise feedback highlighting strengths and
weaknesses
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provides a benchmark of the student's performance with peers all over
the country.